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To Henry R. Fanshaw, Addle Street, 
London, silk embosser, for an improved 
winding machine—13th June ; 6 months. 
To John Ham, late of West Coker, now 
of Bristol, vinegar-maker, for an improved 
process for promoting the action of the 
ascetic acid on metallic bodies—13th June ; 
6 months. 
To Thomas J. Knowlys, Trinity College, 
Oxford, Esq., fer a new manufacture of 
ornamental metal or metals ; communicated 
to him from abroad—13th June ; 6 months. 
‘A List of Patents, which, having been 
granted in July 1812, will expire in the 
present Month of July, 1826, viz. 
16. Thomas Cobb, Junior, of Banbury, 
for further improvements in the art of making 
paper in sheets. 
16. Joln Simpson, of Sutton, York- 
shire, for his method of cleansing, gummuing, 
and scowering whalebone. 
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16. John Simpson, of Birmingham, for 
improved lamps, denominated “© Palmer's 
Birmingham Economie Lamps.” 
16. Jolin Sutherland, of Liverpool, for 
improved copper mills and intermediate con- 
densers. i ; ; 
16. Morris Tobias, of Wapping, for 
his binnacele time-piece or time-keeper. : 
16. James Walker, of Maidstone Hill, 
for his improved tubular metallic vessel, and 
its application to the preservation of fluids and 
other things. 
16. Tebaldo Monzani, London, for im- 
provements in clarionets and German flutes. 
22. Thomas Motley, Bristol, for ai- 
proved letters and characters in relief for 
signs, show boards, &¢. : 
28. William Smith, London, for an im- 
proved gun and pistol lock. ; 
28. John Bellingham, of Leuens, near 
Rostevor, Ircland, for tmproved aale-irees. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS 
Captain Franklin's Expedition.—A letter 
has been received from Captain Franklin, 
dated 7th September 1525, Jat. 63°. 11’. N. 
long 123° .35/, \W. in which that persever- 
ing officer congratulates his friend on the 
prospect he had from Garry’s Island of a 
perfectly open sea, without a particle of ice, 
“as it is (says he) another step gained in 
confirmation of your much contested hy- 
pothesis ; we saw nething to stop the ships, 
but, on the contrary, every thing around us 
-strengthered my hope of their effecting the 
passage.” “On the island they found plenty 
of coal and bitumen. They were busy in 
building a house of wood on the border of 
the lake, for the conyenicnce of fishing, 
and the winter—it is called Fort Franklin. 
The Captain had discharged the,Candian 
voyagers, in order to reduce the establish- 
ment. ‘The officers were very zealous and 
constantly on the alert; and all the men 
had conducted themselves extremely well, 
and quite. enjoy the service. They were 
just six months in reaching the Arctic sea 
after they left Liverpcol.—Two letters have 
likewise been received from Dr. Richardson, 
dated Bear Lake, September 6, 1825, and 
Fort Franklin ; in one of which he writes: 
“* The chearing view from the summit of 
Garry’s Island of an open and iceless sea, to 
the eastward and westward, has exhilirat- 
ed us all, and we look forward to the com- 
mencement of our voyage next July with 
high expectations.”” Bear Lake, it appears, 
is 150 miles in length, exclusive of its large 
arms. The shores of the lake have iron 
in abundance, and who knows (says Dr. 
Richardson) what fate has in store for this 
remote land ; in future ages the arts and 
and sciences may choose their favourite re- 
treat at the foot of the rocky mountains, 
and the bosom of the magnificiert Bear 
Lake be ploughed by the mighty engines of 
Watt and Bolton.”—In the other letter 
Dr. Richardson observes, “‘ I have not ob- 
tained any certain information respecting 
the sea to the westward of the Coppermine 
River, none of the hunters, who are ae- 
customed to go several days’ march to the- 
north of this lake, having either seen it or 
the Esquimaux which inhabit its shores. 
From this circumstance I am rather inclin- 
ed to suppose that there is a cape jutting 
out pretty far to the north, between the 
Mackenzie ‘and Coppermine Rivers.:+ If 
such a cape exists, and is the land seen by 
Captain Parry to the southward of Melville 
Island, or approaches near to it, it may, by 
producing accumulations of ice, interpose a 
serious obstacle to Parry’s ships, should 
they attempt the passage to the southward 
of Melville Island; but 1 do not apprehend 
that we shall be prevented from proceeding 
along the coast in a boat if we are at all 
favoured by the weather, and the channels 
which usually occur between the more fixed 
ice and the shore. Indeed, I am more 
than ever convinced that there is, in some 
seasons at Jeast, if not every year, a passage 
for drift timber, as the poplar wood which 
we found on the former voyage must have, 
come from Mackenzie’s River, there being 
no trees of that kmd to the northward of 
Bear Lake, nor on the banks of any river 
that flows into the Arctic Sea to the east- 
ward. The Indians that have visited the 
sea at the mouth of Mackenzie’s River, 
report that there is open water in some 
years only to the eastward, although it is 
clear of ice every summer to the westward. 
Their intelligence, however, is to be taken 
with some allowance, as they do not always 
visit the coast.at the most favourable time. 
for our purpose, the begininng of August ; 
